Compositional selection of phospholipid compartments in icy environments drives the inheritance of encapsulated genetic information
Tatsuya Shinoda, Natsumi Noda, Takayoshi Watanabe, Kazumu Kaneko, Yasuhito Sekine, Tomoaki Matsuura
The paper shows that phospholipid composition in icy environments influences vesicle growth and leads to selective enrichment of genetic material.
bioRxiv · Apr 16, 2025 · PreprintSynthetic Biology